Sai brush textures dirt full#

Want a more prominent texture? Up the contrast. Just paste the texture into its own layer above everything you want it to apply to, and change the layer mode to Overlay. Using overlays in SAI is just as easy as using them in Photoshop. You’re all welcome to use it, no permission required! To further stave off the artificially smooth look of digital painting, I almost always overlay some sort of paper texture, and it’s almost always this one, which I scanned and edited myself. Good for clouds and fog, as the name suggests, or just less boring gradient fills. It’s just GREAT.īest used for smooth blending, washes, gradients, and smoky atmospheric effects.īasically a grittier version of the watercolor tool, because too much smoothness weird me out. I use it for everything from rough washes to more refined shaping and polish. I don’t use any textures with it because I think the shape of the brush provides enough of that by itself. I like to use the canvas texture on this brush to help break up the unnatural smoothness that usually accompanies digital brushes, but it works just fine without.Ī brush tool set to flat bristle is by far my favorite to paint with. It’s heavier than my usual workhorse brush, for faster color application and rough blending, but not as heavy as the pencil tool, which has no blending at all.

The plain ol’ brush tool acts as sort of an in-between for me in terms of brush flow. I find the line quality to be much more crisp than Photoshop, and you can manually adjust in-program stabilization to help smooth out hand wobbles. Mostly made this because I’m lazy and I didn’t want to have to keep turning my textures off/opacity up when I wanted to ink something (even though I don’t do it very often), or lay down flat colors.

Sai brush textures dirt full#

Lower opacities give it the feel of different pencil hardnesses, while full opacity makes it more like a palette knife, laying down hard-edged, heavy color for detail work or eventual blending with other brushes. I use the pencil tool with SAI’s native paper texture both for sketching and for applying opaque color with no blending. I’ve been getting a lot of asks lately about the brushes and textures I use in my work, so here’s a BIG FAT REFERENCE POST for those of you who were curious! Bear in mind that I’m really lazy and don’t know what half the settings do, so don’t be afraid to experiment to figure out what works best for you :> I hope this ramble was of SOME use–i dont do anything super fancy! all of the color layers should be locked onto the flat color using the clipping group option:Īnd thats it, thats how i get ‘er done! for shading, i just create another layer at the top of the clipping groups, select a color, and set it to multiply.

it can be any color, i usually use a brighter one so i can see it:Īt this point, i lay down all my colors, putting each on a different layer. this is what ill lock all the other colors onto to make it easier when coloring. The next thing i do is put down a flat color. i first set the scan layer to multiply, which will let me color underneath: often times (because drawing on paper is h4rd) i will edit the sketch and do a lot of resizing and touch ups. Take that with a grain of salt, im sure there are better settings and different scanners, but the goal im trying to reach is making all the white pure white, and the pencil as dark as possible without losing line quality.ĪNYWAY, this is what the scan looks like. The first thing i do is scan using paint, because its easiest and i dont like suffering with other programs. all of the following can be done in most basic art programs. i only use photoshop for details, effects, and other final rendering things, but sometimes i dont use it at all. I mainly work in paint tool sai! i find it has the best line quality and is best at handling pen pressure. Most of my art is drawn in pencil on regular printer paper, using various graphite. OKAY, im not sure how well im going to be able to explain this, but here we go: